From Mouthpiece

[Pego]

[m] b i t s . n . b o b s
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Easy Steps to Gooder Grammar

1. Don't abbrev.

2. Check to see if you any words out.

3. Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.

4. About sentence fragments.

5. When dangling, don't use participles.

6. Don't use no double negatives.

7. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

8. Just between You and i, case is important.

9. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.

10. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.

11. Its important to use apostrophe's right.

12. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.

13. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an
object.

14. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized.

15. a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a
period

16. Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word
phrase.

17. In letters compositions reports and things like that we
use commas to keep a string of items apart.

18. Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our
language.

19. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

20. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.

21. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

22. Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.

24. A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.

25. Avoid cliches like the plague

[lonewolf49]

Brilliant! Some real thought into this went.

[tafnut]

We have a poster almost identical to that in our Writing Center. Pego, are you a closet TOE? C'mon, you can come out now.

[Pego]

<Pego, are you a closet TOE?>

I suppose I just can't stand people butchering their own language. If that makes me a closet TOE, I plead guilty .

Edit a typo.

[walkergold]

Many of the errors you cite are unnormal. I think it is highly ablikely people really make such foolish missteaks.

[Daisy]

Very many of them huge errors you site are unnormal. I thunk is it very very highly ablikely people really make such foolest missteaks. could all be beter if we tired harder.

[tafnut]

You two are rank amateurs. To be a comprehensive and purposeful troll, one must not only abuse all precepts of grammar, syntax and diction, one has to have a BRokEN CaPSloCK and LoTS of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!s. It is also prudent to punctuate statements with crude epithets and several instances of
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAs
while telling your intended victim how clueless and naive he is.

C'mon, you guys aren't even TRYING!!!

[mike renfro]

Okay, Pat, I'll bite. TOE. Can't figure it out. Tell me. Off topic, it seems that I10 in the Panhandle got trashed again. I really have to get Mom and baby sis outta there.

[Pego]

Teacher of English.

[tafnut]

TOE - Oh, yes, sorry. That was coined a while back. I use it here in a formal way - someone attuned to the niceties of composition.